When he saw [Holy Tree City] for the first time, Zhu Jue was amazed at how majestic, sacred, and integrated with nature it was.
The ginkgo tree is like a holy mountain, resplendent in the sun, and like a sharp sword towering into the clouds, piercing the sky.
But now, perhaps because of a change in mentality, when he sees [Holy Tree City] again, the protagonist only feels lonely and decayed.
The hollow tree trunk is strong on the outside and strong on the inside. The sparse leaves lack vitality. The ants inside are also conservative and lack the power to control the civilized ant tribe in the area.
This time, Zhu Jue came to [Holy Tree City] in person because he was invited by the Leafcutter Ant Nation to meet with visitors from the Liaison Tree area in the north, together with representatives of all civilized ant tribes in the region.
The civilized ants are all members of the Ancient God Heritage Alliance. They are divided into different areas according to the contact tree in their place. There are more than 1.3 million different areas in total. Civilized ant tribes in different regions have very little contact due to travel distance. The significance of this visit from a distant country is obviously not simple.
The Ant United Nation is currently located in the 23rd Contact Tree Area of the Ancient God Heritage Alliance, and to the north of them is the 22nd Contact Tree Area. The person arriving this time is the envoy from this area of the Black Fire Ant Nation.
According to the report from the Leafcutter Ant Nation’s envoy, the envoy from the 22nd Contact Tree area brought important news, so representatives of all civilized ant tribes in the area needed to attend the meeting urgently.
Since the matter was serious, Zhu Jue guessed that this meeting might involve the Destroyer, whose figure had already appeared in the north in previous news.
After landing outside [Holy Tree City], Zhu Jue and the flying knight guards had just fastened their bee mounts when they heard a "buzzing" sound of flapping wings in the sky behind them.
It seems that representatives from other tribes have arrived.
Zhu Jue turned around and saw it was the "Flying Eagle" and two male black fire ants, riding a very rare fire bee mount in the black fire ant clan, on the star beetle guided by the leaf-cutter ants. Guided landing.
The black fire ant clan is not very skilled in raising and controlling animals. This fire bee is the only insect they can semi-domesticate, but it cannot reproduce. It must find wild insect eggs every year to replenish them. The total number never exceeds thirty, only the highest-status male ants. Only then are you qualified to ride.
"Flying Eagle" only fell down to see Zhu Jue clearly, and immediately lowered his head - even though he had caused a lot of obstacles for Zhu Jue after betraying the Divine Envoy King's Legion, when facing the real master, he was speaking from the bottom of his heart. Guilty.
The other two black fire ant males had high status and also met Zhu Jue and recognized his identity from the intelligence in their minds. Although the relationship between the two groups is currently delicate, the black fire ants did not intend to cause trouble at this time. They pretended not to see it and quickly entered [Holy Tree City].
Zhu Jue was not in a hurry to leave. He walked around the [Holy Tree City] and looked up at the tall but sparse branches of the ginkgo tree from different angles. His actions confused the female leafcutter ants he was guiding.
When Zhu Jue entered the conference room, he was already the last representative to arrive besides the host.
Representatives of the distant ant tribes, such as honeypot ants, harvest ants, and thin-legged ants, arrived in advance the day before yesterday and yesterday to avoid delays. The closer ones, such as the black fire ants, had time to leave today.
Zhu Jue found an ant silk mat to lie down on. He deliberately chose to be next to the representatives of honeypot ants and sharp-tailed ants. He even touched their tentacles and said hello.
The representative of the leaf-cutter ant queen arrived belatedly after all the representatives had gathered. Another female leaf-cutter ant came in with her. When passing by Zhu Jue, Zhu Jue smelled the female leaf-cutter ant. Ants emit different smells.
It seems that this person is the messenger, and he is also a leafcutter ant. Could it be that all the guardians of the contact tree are of the leafcutter ant family?
Sure enough, according to the leafcutter ant queen representative, this leafcutter ant female is a representative of the 22nd contact tree guardian clan. It took more than 10 days to fly here to convey an important message:
The holy tree in the 22nd contact tree area in the north has fallen!
In the information package provided by the messenger, everyone was horrified to see a black tide of demonic ants (destroyers) crawling all over the surface of the poplar sacred tree in the north. Countless leaf-cutting ant corpses and destroyed ant eggs and ant The pupae were carried out and piled in a thick layer on the ground.
The scene turned, and with a shocking loud noise, the tall white poplar tree was blown apart in the middle, and collapsed suddenly, causing huge waves of aftermath.
In the air, a small number of leaf-cutting ants riding on the Star Cluster Ox looked back reluctantly, and then flew away from the sacred tree that was lying on the ground, like a dying giant insect.
The information package provided by the messenger was full of sadness. She said that although their clan has not been completely destroyed, its strength has been greatly reduced. Only a few people broke out from the sacred tree. Now the whole clan is in another civilized ant. They live under the protection of the Bearded Ant Clan.
The situation in the 22nd Contact Tree area is currently not optimistic. Since the Demon Ant Tribe appeared four years ago, in such a short period of time, 18 of the total 21 civilized ant tribes in this area have been destroyed.
Among the remaining civilized ant tribes in this area, apart from the leaf-cutting ant tribe, which has been greatly weakened, only the bearded ants and the Argentine ant tribe are still resisting. There has been no news about the Argentine ant tribe for more than half a year, and it is estimated that it is also dangerous. Much good and little good.
Zhu Jue originally thought that the envoy was here to ask for help, but he did not expect that after the envoy finished speaking, he ended his speech, and the leaf-cutting ant queen who presided over the meeting made a concluding speech.
The leaf-cutter ant queen announced that the demon ant tribe is expected to enter the area in the short term, calling on all civilized ant tribes in the area to prepare for a "holy war." Especially the honeypot ants and other tribes in the far north need to prepare for war without delay.
At this time, Zhu Jue asked doubtfully whether he should consider supporting the allies who were still resisting in the 22nd contact tree area and try to delay the demon ants' southward movement.
However, the leaf-cutter ant clan stated that cross-regional support is not in line with the actions of the Ancient God Heritage Alliance. If necessary, a dedicated ant clan will be involved in this matter.
At this time, the representative of the bullet ant clan spoke. Their clan had migrated long distances to support the "holy war" in this region. They said they would contact the southern bullet ant clan as soon as possible and apply for support from the clan to this area and the 22nd contact tree area.
Only the bullet ants have the ability to fly long distances by relying on their locust mounts, and they are the firefighters among the civilized ants.
Faced with the external threat of the demon ant tribe, the civilized ant tribe in the region finally put aside their prejudices and differences for the time being and began to discuss cooperation matters.
The scene of the sacred poplar tree collapsing not only reminded Zhu Jue of the collapse of the big banyan tree in his hometown and made him empathize with it, but also shocked and frightened other representatives of the civilized ant tribe.
The demon ants are coming! ! !
